01:19:32 How do the details in the passage support the central
idea?
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Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.
You could date a great change in the world to a visit one
Madame Villeneuve made to France in 1714. That year,
Pauline, an enslaved woman from the Caribbean, arrived
in France as the personal servant of her mistress. When
Madame Villeneuve set off from the coast to visit Paris,
she left Pauline in a convent. The young woman spent
her time studying with the nuns and went so far in her
training that she asked to become a nun herself and
remain in the convent. The nuns agreed, which enraged
Madame Villeneuve. She rushed to a judge, demanding
to have her property back. Was Pauline a free woman, a
bride of Christ, or an item to be bought, sold, and
warehoused when she was not in use?
O They compare the end of slavery in the French
colonies with the end of slavery in other colonies.
They provide details about the final few years of
slavery in Europe and its many colonies.
O They provide examples of how laws and attitudes
about equality changed in France.
O They explain why enslaved people entered convents
in an attempt to gain their freedom.
Twenty-three years earlier, King Louis XIV had issued a
set of rules that defined slavery as legal in the French
sugar islands. But when two slaves managed to reach
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